As Ontario faces an estimated shortage of 30,000 nurses and health care professionals, a new report finds that nearly 1,900 nurses living in the province regularly commute to work in Michigan.
The report was published by the think tank Secondstreet.org, which contacted just over 3,000 Ontario nurses with active licenses in the U.S. state to learn about their decision to work outside of the country.
A total of 1,887 nurses surveyed, or 63 percent, live in Ontario and said they regularly commute to work in Michigan. Another 248 nurses, or 8.2 percent, indicated a desire to work in the U.S. state in the future.
The survey found that the most common incentive for the nurses to take work in Michigan was “availability of work” (30 percent), followed by “compensation” (25 percent) and “working conditions” (23 percent). Many noted that they were seeking full-time positions in Ontario, but only part-time positions were available….